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A fact from Budlong Pickle Company appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 August 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that a "pickle train" delivered workers to the Budlong Pickle Company in the early 20th century?
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 01:51, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
... that a "pickle train" delivered workers to the Budlong Pickle Company(founder pictured) in the early 20th century? See article here. Res isn't great: it reads: "Conductor John Hughes' 'pickle train' on the Northwestern road … leaves its … passengers on a lonely switch about five miles southwest of Evanston … each one … has a pasteboard ticket … reading 'Good for one passage between Clybourn junction and Budlong farm"
Comment: This was a rescue at AfD; the nomination has been withdrawn, although the AfD template is still on the page. I'm confident that the image is in the public domain (see further description on the Commons page). The prose size script gives me 695 B for the old version and 3533 B for the current version; 5*695 = 3475 < 3533 (but only just).
5X expansion. QPQ done. Earwig passed. Well cited. Hooks both cited. Image isn't that thrilling, and is not a pickle. ;-) --evrik(talk) 16:16, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Evrik: Thanks for your review :) Agree the image is pretty lame; put it up mainly because it's such an excellent scan. Was hoping to find a cute advertisement for one of their pickles, but alas … AleatoryPonderings (talk) 16:33, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Budlong Pickle Company vs Budlong Hot Chicken[edit]
I moved this article back to its original name, Budlong Pickle Company, because the article is about the pickle firm, not the hot chicken restaurant. The restaurant can be mentioned, but if it merits its own page it should be on its own page and not piggyback off this one, which is about its namesake. That sort of move is a little too drastic to be done without any sort of discussion. Technically the page was hijacked, but to me that implies a level of malice that I don't think exists here. As far as I can tell, the Budlong Pickle Company and Budlong Hot Chicken share a name, and though the latter's name is in homage to the former, it is not any sort of continuation thereof.
On a related note, I've cleaned up some of the more advert-like material added to the page about the restaurant by a since-blocked account sharing a name with the company that owns the restaurant. Paris1127 (talk) 01:01, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
... but did you know we got our name from The Budlong Pickle Company, a family-run pickling business where we opened our first location, established in the 1850’s? We think it’s a pretty cool part of our hood’s culture and thought it’d be a swell name.
AfD is now closed; ready for review. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 19:25, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
5X expansion. QPQ done. Earwig passed. Well cited. Hooks both cited. Image isn't that thrilling, and is not a pickle. ;-) --evrik (talk) 16:16, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
